This is fixed in feisty with 1.0.4-0ubuntu2 now... and definitely not an upstream bug... they don't need to put the translation template into the tarball.
** Changed in: liferea (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- no translation template for liferea 1.2 series https://launchpad.net/bugs/78885 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs